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Show Love and the Romantics. In the sphere of love, as in so many ; of the emotions of mankind, there are two schools of feeling and of tempera-'. tempera-'. ment. There is in love, as in litera-j litera-j ture, the school of the realists and the j school of the romantics. St. Atigus-; Atigus-; tine is one of the first great apostles ! of the school of the romantic lovers; I it was net who, describing his first passion, attributed it not so much to the object who inspired It as to the : love of love the unconquerable aspi-1 aspi-1 ration of the young and the tmagina-; tmagina-; tive to find the realization and em-i em-i bodiment of all the tumultuous dreams j of their imagination in some lovely ob- ject. The object may be quite unwor-! unwor-! thy of the fantastic kingdom in which ' she moves; may be of just as little ' importance as the snnll male!) that I sets aflame the gigantic magazine of i . imaginative pnwekr. That does not I matler; like St. Aug".: lim;. romantics i loved because they wa ited to love. I T. P. O'Connor in London T. P.'s I Weekly. i i . 1 |